Obama Defends Economic Legacy, Rebukes ‘Fantasy’ Republicans

Obama Defends Economic Legacy, Rebukes ‘Fantasy’ Republicans

Washington, (an24) – United States President, Barack Obama on Thursday, defended his economic legacies against various backlashes from Republican presidential candidates vying to succeed him at the November general election.

Mr. Obama made this bold statement during an interview with The New York Times Magazine, as he added that financial sector “is bigger, absorbs more resources and maybe most importantly, more talent than I would like to see,” the president admitted.

Furthermore, Mr Obama revealed a withering assessment of what he sees as the unrealistic economic pledges of Republican hopefuls in the race for the White House, led by billionaire businessman Donald Trump.

“They don’t simply defy logic and any known economic theories, they are fantasy,” Obama said. “Slashing taxes, particularly for those at the very top, dismantling regulatory regimes that protect our air and our environment, and then projecting that this is going to lead to five percent or seven percent growth, and claiming that they’ll do all this while balancing the budget.

“Nobody would even, with the most rudimentary knowledge of economics, think that any of those things are plausible.